One day last month I ran into our university’s president as he was walking to his office, three books under his arm. One, by a member of our faculty, was on the Pentateuch, the first five books of what Christians regard as the Old Testament — the Torah of Judaism. I must have looked quizzical … More “I could use some help with Leviticus”
I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. So said American publisher John Bartlett of his most famous work, a compendium of quotations that is still in print today. While later editors went far beyond the founder’s favorite sources (the Bible and Shakespeare) … More Democratizing Bartlett’s: What Kindle Readers Highlight
Here • As more and more universities seek to develop online programs, will education become interchangeable with “infotainment”? And am I just making things worse with one of my summer projects? • Entries F and G in my Albums A to Z series took me into the genres of country and gospel. • Wrestling with … More That Was The Week That Was
“If it’s so easy, let’s see you do it” will be an eminently fair response to this post, offering as it does a suggestion for how to give speeches or preach sermons at college commencement or baccalaureate exercises from someone who’s done neither. Here goes… It’s been a commencement-filled weekend for me: my own university’s … More Sent Out to Serve, and Suffer
Today I’ll recap the third of my three talks delivered on May 5-6 for Salem Covenant Church’s annual family camp, in the northern Minnesota woods at Covenant Pines Bible Camp. The overriding theme was to encourage Christian non-historians to approach church history with the same zeal that many of them apply to family history. I … More Church History as Family History (part 3)
Today I’ll continue my recap of the series of talks I gave last weekend for Salem Covenant Church‘s annual “family camp,” held up at Covenant Pines, outside McGregor, MN. They concerned the topic, “The Family History That Most Christians Don’t Know, But Can’t Ignore: Three Biblical Tools for Understanding Church History.” In the first part … More Church History as Family History (part 2)
Last Friday Bethel hosted its inaugural Colloquium on Pietism Studies, a one-day gathering that I hope to see become a biennial or triennial event. (It came three years after we hosted an international research conference on “The Pietist Impulse in Christianity.”) Thanks to our generous and supportive deans (Deb Harless and Barrett Fisher, in particular) … More Pietism Colloquium Recap: Scot McKnight
My wife and I were blessed to be part of a very special wedding yesterday. Among many other memorable elements of the occasion, the New Testament text that our friends chose stood out: Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in … More “One in spirit and of one mind”
Aside from advertising the opening of registration for our April 20 colloquium on Pietism, announcing a new podcast episode, and revealing the most popular posts in the last month, there wasn’t much happening here while I was on spring break. Meanwhile, in other parts of the blogosphere… • One more post on Joseph Kony… Like … More That Was The Week That Was
A rare Saturday afternoon post here at The Pietist Schoolman, occasioned mostly by my forgetting to include something in this morning’s links round-up. But I’m glad my memory failed me because this essay by Fred Sanders deserves some special attention… Up until the fateful day at Covenant Pines Bible Camp when my brother decided to … More The Best-Selling Artist of All Time
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